You guys are on the ball. Here’s another Freudian slip from the BBC:
Read your note mentioning ITN’s Freudian slip this morning, then drove out of town from Prague, where I live, to a meeting. I had the radio tuned to the World Service most of the way. During a morning segment on what the world papers had to say about the war, the reader was describing a Syrian front page that, along with its headline, showed pictures of the dead and captured soldiers thoughtfully broadcast by al jazeera. “And here,” she said, “are the pictures evidently showing the murderers, er, rather the murdered, soldiers.” Not, as they, making that one up.
Then there’s this lovely interaction:
Mitchell Switch-(of the BBC): Nobody thought this was going to be simple, but, given the degree of resistance, which I think you concede has been unexpected — the level of casualties, now the prisoners of war — is it not the case that this is proving to be significantly more difficult than you might have hoped?
GEN. ABIZAID: No. (Laughter.)
And the BBC is not beneath active deception in its propaganda campaign. Here’s an email from a longtime BBC employee:
Earlier in the evening I saw CNN (Pool pictures I guess) of Kurds in Ebril moving out of the town and away from the possible Iraqi incusion into the Kurdish area. An interview with one villager saying life was tough and she and her family wanted to be safe etc etc. Imagine my suprise to find the same pictures and interview turn up in a BBC report about how citizens of Bagdad were fearing the US bombing to come. Withoput explaining that the people of Ebril were escaping Saddam’s violence, the commentary said, “And as in Bagdad so it is throughout Iraq” – cue Ebril material and interview. The implication being the Kurds (they weren’t described as such) were afraid of US bombs. (in fact later in the oriinal piece, they welcome US intervention). Just one small example. I am wondering how I can go about shaming my former employer (30 years working in the Beeb). Any suggestions?
One suggestion is to appeal to anyone at the BBC who’s witnessing these monstrosities to relay me as much inside dope as they can. Hey, it works at the NYT …
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